Year 3 has made a sensational start to Term 2. Mrs Durnan and Mrs Ziegler would like to commend the students for the enthusiastic, attentive and cooperative attitudes they bring to school each and every day.

Visual Arts
Students have enjoyed opportunities to explore different artistic techniques during Visual Arts this term. As part of our Religious Education unit we have been learning about gifts of the Holy Spirit. We created artworks using our silhouettes and water colours to highlight our skills and vibrancy which make us unique in this world. We are currently creating autumn inspired texture prints blending paint colours. We can’t wait to share these with you soon.  

English
Year 3 have continued to enthusiastically participate in our English Daily Reviews. They have been committed to moving their learning from their short-term memory to long term memory. They have been expanding on vocabulary, identifying syllables for a given word, listing common and proper nouns and consolidated their reading fluency. Students have started to write their speeches for the Public Speaking Competition and our topic is ‘If animals could talk, what would they say”  Here are some of our ideas so far:

Maths
In Maths we have been developing automaticity for times tables, identifying the numerator and denominator for fractions, used partitioning to solve addition and subtraction problems as well as accurately identifying time. This week we have been focused on learning about how to multiply and divide by 10,100 and 1000.

Science
In Science we have been learning about different types of matter. We have been experimenting with adding heat, or cooling different substances and predicting their results. Students in particular loved making salt crystals by heating epsom salts and watching them materialise as the salts cooled to show the different particles and how they attach to each other. 

Performing Arts
In Performing Arts with Mrs Shannon students have been loving the opportunity to get hands on with instruments in music lessons. Year 3 have been learning how to read music and to play the ukulele and glockenspiel!

Mrs Carla Durnan and Mrs Alyssa Ziegler
Year 3 Teachers